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Samurai's Katana

Artifact — Equipment2 generic manaRed mana

Equipment normally opens with a tax: you pay for the object, then pay again to strap it onto a creature you already control, and if you have no creature the artifact sits inert until you do. Job select folds both halves into the cast. The moment it enters, it manufactures its own bearer (a small Hero token) and attaches for free, so the +2/+2 with trample and haste lands as a 3/3 hasty threat that can swing immediately, no board required. That collapses the two-card, two-turn setup of traditional Equipment into a single sorcery-speed play, and it means a lone copy in your opening hand still produces a body and a beater rather than sitting useless the way a naked Bonesplitter can. The Murasame equip cost is the counterweight: five mana to relocate the sword onto a bigger, better creature after the token dies is deliberately steep, discouraging you from treating this as a cheap way to re-arm your whole team. The design reads as an answer to Equipment's oldest structural weakness (the vulnerability window between casting the sword and having something to hold it) by refusing to leave one open in the first place. What you give up for that is modularity: the built-in body is fragile and the reattach tax is punishing, so this functions best as a self-contained aggressive package rather than a toolbox piece you shuffle between threats.

Samurai's Katana (fin)
FIN · #154uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.17
Foil: $0.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

Job select (When this Equipment enters, create a 1/1 colorless Hero creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has trample and haste, and is a Samurai in addition to its other types. Murasame — Equip 5 generic mana
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
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